Today's News

The Brunswick Town Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ended a successful club year with a luncheon at Duffer’s Pub and Grill at Oak Island Golf Club on May 13. The program was in recognition of the student winners of the group’s JROTC scholarship awards.

Elsie Hinkhouse, chairman of JROTC affairs, introduced the award winners: Phoenix-Amrol Davis from South Brunswick High School, who is finishing her junior year; Kimberly Ramirez, a senior from North Brunswick High School; and Rebecca Bennett, a senior from West Brunswick High School.

Now that summer’s (almost) here, I hope to catch up on my summer reading, starting with the stack of books I’ve accumulated by local authors.

Yes, I’d like to brush up on my summer tan or sunburn as it were, but personally I find nothing is more boring than “laying out,” as my friends always called it. (Though I suppose “lying out” is more grammatically correct.)

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.

The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

Agents of the Brunswick County Drug Enforcement Unit conducted a vehicle stop on May 29 on U.S. 17 near N.C. 904. Agents seized more than a pound of marijuana and arrested Terrance Clarida, 29, of Catawba Road in Ash. Clarida was charged with possession with the intent to manufacture, sell or distribute marijuana, maintaining a vehicle to keep a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

State Rep. Bonner Stiller’s resignation from the N.C. General Assembly became effective Monday, and on Tuesday night, the Brunswick County Republican Party’s executive committee elected Frank Iler to replace him.

The vote was 25-10 in favor of Iler, of Oak Island, over Brunswick County Board of Education Chairwoman Shirley Babson, who also sought the seat.

Iler was set to go to Raleigh at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, he said, and was to be sworn in that evening.